Atom bomb survivor hopes Japan debut of ‘Oppenheimer’ will stoke nuclear debate
Hiroshima, Japan Reuters Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her unconscious and levelled swathes of the Japanese city. Teruko Yahata, 86, a World War II Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor, speaks about […]
Hiroshima prays for peace, fears new arms race on atomic bombing anniversary
Tokyo, JapanReuters Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Saturday as the city marked the 77th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, with officials including the United Nations Secretary General warning of a new arms race following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine on 24th February, and, shortly after, Russian President Vladimir Putin had obliquely […]
Essay: After 75 years, a question about race haunts Truman’s calculation on Hiroshima
Rabbi A JAMES RUDIN, the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser, recalls – in an article first published on Religion News Service, his time serving as an Air Force chaplain in Japan in the 1960s and the question put to him by the Japanese during his time there…
HIROSHIMA DOME
I recently had the privilege of visiting the Hiroshima dome in Japan, my first time overseas! PICTURE: Dariusz Jemielniak/licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0 This museum tells the haunting story of the first city to experience the terror of the atomic age. It not only tells the global story of what led to the dropping of […]